- (n.) One authorized to collect debts.
- (n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes or toll.
- (n.) One who collects things which are separate; especially, one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
- (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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